Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Comoros and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1963 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Camouflage. All the underground hits.
All Fat Boys tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Metal Thangz record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Agitation Free record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kas Product,
Andrew Hill,
The Buckinghams,
Gastr Del Sol,
Colin Newman,
The Victims,
Faust,
Anakelly,
Funky Four + One,
Joe Smooth,
Altered Images,
Rakim,
Brass Construction,
Quadrant,
Deepchord,
Patti Smith,
Lebanon Hanover,
Dawn Penn,
U.S. Maple,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Young Rascals,
Echospace,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Remains,
Drexciya,
Mandrill,
FM Einheit,
Anthony Braxton,
The Moody Blues,
Eli Mardock,
Grauzone,
The Leaves,
Bad Manners,
Quantec,
The Fortunes,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Searchers,
Livin' Joy,
The Associates,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Shadows of Knight,
Silicon Teens,
cv313,
Prince Buster,
Eurythmics,
Peter & Gordon,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Joey Negro,
Saccharine Trust,
D'Angelo,
Minny Pops,
Joensuu 1685,
Chris Corsano,
The Sound,
Nirvana,
Peter and Kerry,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Happenings,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.